Chapter 680
“So this is fucking impossible.”
It hurt to admit but even after working through that day and night and on into the next from there, he still couldn’t figure out how to build an enchantment that would be able to materialize mana once power was poured into it, the blow being all the greater since he knew a god he hated had pulled that very thing off.
There was no real way for Ben to know how Galwax had achieved it, both thanks to that god’s death along with his trial being trapped in some higher layer of reality but the fact he couldn’t do the same did nothing but eat at him with the question only digging at his mind.
It all came down to doing something more than just constructing the proper shape of enchantment by utilizing any magics and skills he could, what he was failing at was something he didn’t know how to do to begin with, encoding raw knowledge into his designs.
When he or anyone materialized, what they were doing was applying their understanding of the material itself and forcing that understanding onto the universe, something he didn’t know how to replicate through raw magic alone. He couldn’t attach one of his minds to a machine permanently to make it happen, leaving him with no other paths to follow.
And I’m not even really sure if what Galwax did was actually encoding knowledge. He sighed. This was a god of magic, maybe he was able to view the act of materialization in a way I simply can’t. I can imagine there probably is a way to move mana to get what I want that doesn’t require any understanding of the element itself but without being able to view materialization on the atomic scale I have no way to do it myself. Ugh, this sucks so freaking much!
Having to admit that he couldn’t replicate something that god had pulled off couldn’t help but irk him but if he had to be honest with himself, that wasn’t the only thing worsening his mood. Really it was a combination, all working in tandem to annoy him.
Even though it had only been a couple of days, Ben still hadn’t gotten another level to his job. Thinking he would so soon was beyond unreasonable too, he knew that, but his impatience was not so easily shaken when he wanted to see results.
Results he also wasn’t getting in his crafting. He’d been making things as usual, even through his experimentation, but he was once more struggling to pass a limit. He may have raised his jacket to the high end of legendary but he hadn’t been able to pull it off again since.